I've been messing about with some public domain and creative commons samples to create a number of saxophone type instruments. The University of Iowa Alto and Soprano Saxes sound the best. They are quite warm and blend well. The Club Saxes are from samples by Clruwe at Freesound.org. They are more free form and fun, but have their own definition of that pesky phrase 'in tune'.  Check out the Tenor Sax for many trills, drops, slurs, etc... Finally there is the MSLP Sax with 6 styles from that very interesting and eclectic library of samples.
The Iowa Saxes are available for Kontact 5, VSTi and Sampletank. The Club and MSLP Saxes are for K5 only.

bigcatinstruments.blogspot.com/2014/03/bigcat-saxophone-collection.html

Any comments, critiques and such appreciated.

Well - just a big thanks from me... 

Thanks for producing them in more than one format.

Haven't had a chance to try it yet but I have downloaded the NKIs.    Thanks!

Thanks for giving them a try, Elffin and stevec!
Someone on KVR was having problems getting the latest version of Kontakt 5 to read the nkis. Anyone else having those problems? I put up new versions with no interface, thinking that might solve the problem since I can't reproduce it myself.

To launch the the Kontakt based saxes I had to install the latest version of Kontakt and they work. Works nicely and sounds good.
 
Great sounding ... just one or two pitches out of tune... but spose it adds to the realism.. but I'm thankful for your work and efforts.  
 
They work quite well also in Samplettank2.
 
The maize based version seems to have more problems..... some click noises appear on it also seems to not play nice with other maize based vsts place in the project. 

Thanks for that report Elffin. Lots of good information in there. I'll examine the Maise VSTis and see if i can figure out what is going wrong with them.